morag shepherd

morag shepherd

Playwright Morag Shepherd, originally from Scotland, is the current winner of the Plan-B Theatre grant from The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists for NOT ONE DROP, which premieres at Plan-B in March of 2017. She is also the resident playwright at Sackerson in Salt Lake City, where her plays THE WORST THING I’VE EVER DONE (performed in a box by one actor for an audience of one at a time), BEFORE...

Playwright Morag Shepherd, originally from Scotland, is the current winner of the Plan-B Theatre grant from The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists for NOT ONE DROP, which premieres at Plan-B in March of 2017. She is also the resident playwright at Sackerson in Salt Lake City, where her plays THE WORST THING I’VE EVER DONE (performed in a box by one actor for an audience of one at a time), BEFORE THE BEEP (performed in weekly installments via voicemail) and POPPY’S IN THE SAND have premiered, the latter also playing Great Salt Lake Fringe and San Diego International Fringe Festivals. Sackerson will premiere her play BURN in the fall of 2016.

Plays

Not One Drop bymorag shepherd

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Genre: dark comedy

Genre: dark comedy

Intimacy, identity, power, life, death.
A fall, a push, a murder.
A sideways glance at the roles we play
to convince ourselves we are(n’t)
who we think we are.

BURNbymorag shepherd

Allison becomes allergic to the sun while going through a faith crisis. A previous love comes back into her life, and she has to choose whether to stay with her family, or be with him.

Poppy's in the Sandbymorag shepherd

Cast:

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Genre: drama

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Keyword: Scotland, truth + 3 more

Genre: drama

Keyword: Scotland, truth, death, family, sea

Keele can't stop thinking about her childhood in Scotland and the day she buried her sister Poppy in the sand--accidentally killing her. Keele's father tries to protect her, but her mother is hiding something about that fateful day.

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